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Covid collateral damage
Artists are badly affected financially by the pandemic and if they're asking for cash you can bet your bottom dollar they need it, says ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER
Banksy’s identity may have been published – but was the investigation in the public interest, asks PETER BENGTSEN
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
I’VE just cancelled all gigs until August, apart from Rebellion punk festival. I can’t believe that will take place either but they are hanging on and hoping for a miracle.
I had 10 planned this month and another 12 in April and they’ve all gone as well. I’m missing the human interaction, the warmth, the communication, the feeling of being among friends, of speaking my mind and making people laugh and think, contributing to society, being part of life.
I'm certain that every single performer out there is feeling the same.
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